The New Normal
written by: Bruce Levine
@brucelevine19
The new normal
A fork in the road
Patterns dismembered
Disemboweled entities
Parades of non-sequiturs
Masquerading as normal
Without understanding why
Where or how
A broken hourglass
Sand spilled on a table
Driftwood on a beach
Formless yet beautiful
As it awaits redemption
In a time continuum
A flame in a vacuum
Extinguished without air
Eviscerated memories
In quicksand forgotten
The new normal
Tightening its grip
With tears flowing softly
On landscapes plowed under
A road yet created
A normal unknown
Bruce Levine is a Pushcart Prize poetry nominee, a Spillwords Press Awards winner, and a WestWard Quarterly featured writer. Over three hundred of his works are published on over twenty-five online journals including Ariel Chart, Literary Yard, 5-7-5 Haiku Journal: over seventy print anthologies including Tipton Poetry Journal, Poets’ Espresso Review, and WestWard Quarterly. He’s the author of the chapbook Sweet Dreams and is also a classical composer.
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